Browse 487 quotes about Small Business.
“No protection for the small-business owner. Only taxes and extortion.”
Source: Iron Gold
“I want to see a world in which entrepreneurs give time to their visions to reality so that they have more money, more family time, and more support, a world in which they can stop working so hard and start living!”
Source: Vision to Reality: Stop Working, Start Living
“Hard work without a solid plan isn’t likely to get you where you want to be. You need to be teachable; you need to be dedicated, and you need to work smart.”
Source: Vision to Reality: Stop Working, Start Living
“Entrepreneurs aren’t looking to go backward. They are looking to go forward, toward their prize of realizing their dreams.”
Source: Vision to Reality: Stop Working, Start Living
“Surround yourself with like-minded people who support you on the road to success.”
Source: Marketing Strategies for the Home-Based Business: Solutions You Can Use Today
“Decision making and problem solving are not the same. To solve a problem, one needs to find a solution. To make a decision, one needs to make a choice.”
Source: Ethics & Risk Management for Christian Coaches
“Update a traditional element of your business with social media designs. Facebook, Twitter, and other social media are hot right now, and leveraging their popularity can make your business stand out, be memorable, and seem fresh and up-to-date.”
Source: Visual Marketing: 99 Proven Ways for Small Businesses to Market with Images and Design
“Not a single person has died of boredom reading this book.”
Source: How to be a Finance Rock Star
“Many small businesses would rather face an angry barbarian horde than tackle their cash flow statement or price a new product.”
Source: How to be a Finance Rock Star
“I see dead Presidents. Lincoln, Jefferson, Franklin, and Washington.”
Source: How to be a Finance Rock Star
“If you don’t laugh reading this book I’ll eat my pocket protector. Wait, did I just admit I had a pocket protector?”
Source: How to be a Finance Rock Star
“It used to be that the big eat the small; now it’s the fast that eat the slow. Fast is the new big.”
Source: Flash Foresight: How to See the Invisible and Do the Impossible
“The more successful your business becomes, the more media you will attract!”
Source: Be a Media Magnet: The Bootstrapper's Guide to PR: The No Agency Formula for Attracting Media Attention for Startups & Small Business
“You don’t need a business plan. You need a customer, a product, and a reason to keep showing up.”
Source: Money's Dirty Little Secrets: How to Break the Rules, Get Filthy Rich, and Laugh All the Way to the Bank
“Trade show booth setup isn’t guesswork. The order of installation matters, and poor contractor timing can lead to delays, damage, and wasted money.”
Source: Trade Show 411: The Essential Guide to Exhibiting Like a Pro
“There’s no one-size-fits-all way to get around a trade show city. Whether it’s Uber, subway, or a rental car, the best transportation depends on where you’re staying, how far you need to go, and what kind of schedule you’re on. A poor transportation choice can mean missed meetings, late arrivals, and unnecessary stress.”
Source: Trade Show 411: The Essential Guide to Exhibiting Like a Pro
“A press release announces your news. A media alert informs reporters of an event's location and time. Both belong in your trade show PR toolkit. Use the press release to share a story and the alert to drive attendance.”
Source: Trade Show 411: The Essential Guide to Exhibiting Like a Pro
“Trade show shipping isn’t one-size-fits-all. You might drive a small inline booth to a local show or use a freight carrier to move a large island exhibit across the country. Your choice depends on your budget, how much time you have, the distance, and how fragile your materials are. Each option has pros and cons. What works for one show might not work for the next. The key is to understand your options and plan ahead so your booth arrives on time and in good shape.”
Source: Trade Show 411: The Essential Guide to Exhibiting Like a Pro
“Don’t dismiss the show hotel just because it might charge full price. Staying at a cheaper hotel miles away means spending extra on transportation and wasting time traveling back and forth. Walking to the convention center from a 'more expensive' hotel nearby enables you to save money in the end and keeps your schedule on track.”
Source: Trade Show 411: The Essential Guide to Exhibiting Like a Pro
“Speaking at a trade show is one of the most cost-effective ways to showcase your knowledge and expertise and position your business as an industry leader. Since it’s often free, it’s a smart move to boost your exhibitor ROI.”
Source: Trade Show 411: The Essential Guide to Exhibiting Like a Pro
“What’s the perfect trade show booth size and location? There’s no single answer that fits everyone. It depends on your exhibitor goals, what you want to achieve, your budget, and other factors. Knowing your priorities helps you choose the booth space that’s right for you.”
Source: Trade Show 411: The Essential Guide to Exhibiting Like a Pro
“Happy customers are your biggest advocates and can become your most successful sales team.”
Source: Startup Over Lunch: Marketing Strategy in 60 Minutes to Fire Up Your Business
“To change your perspective, you must choose to change the position from which you see your business.”
“You get teamwork in the workplace by giving teamwork in the workplace. It's not only about your personal career success or your colleagues' personal career success, but it's also about the success of the company - which is good for everyone employed at the company.”
Source: Business Essentials
“Every business has its own story and its own personality.”
“Strive to be bored is a contradictory statement for most entrepreneurs. But we have to strive to be bored to make space for more if we want to grow our business.”
Source: The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success
“The self-employed need business strategies that are relationship-based, not transactional, authentic to who you are, and right-sized for small business.”
Source: The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success
“It is not your job to prove your value to anyone. It is your job to find the people that already value what you do.”
Source: The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success
“Having a successful life and business requires that we first learn who we are, then do what we have to do in order to have what we want.”
Source: The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success
“We used to build businesses with all effort and hard work. Today, we create businesses by paying attention to what the market wants and co-creating with those we serve.”
Source: The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success
“Build systems for the business to come, not the business you have.”
Source: The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success
“The biggest risk is not in what you build. It is in not supporting what you build.”
Source: The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success
“To create success in your business, you have to protect your capacity to serve others by learning to work efficiently and effectively.”
Source: The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success
“Your success is limited by your personal development- what you think you’re capable of, what you think you deserve, and the mindsets that hold you back.”
Source: The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success
“Daily habits that create steady mindsets are vital to be sure the uncontrollable circumstances of business and life don’t derail you.”
Source: The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success
“Small Businesses bring cities to life.”
“Putting a stake in the ground that you’re self-employed is important. It’s the only term that accurately portrays your lifestyle and your business model.”
Source: The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success
“We don’t let go of something until the benefits of what’s ahead are greater than what we’ve been holding on to.”
Source: The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success
“The worlds of corporate employees and freelancers are miles apart, even if they are producing the same deliverable. Imagine flying your own two-seat “puddle jumper” instead of taking a commercial flight. You’ll reach the same destination, but how you get there is a completely different experience.”
Source: The Freelancer’s Compass: Navigate Your Way from Corporate Cog to Solopreneur Star
“As a freelancer, you’re not a cog in the (corporate) machine. You’re the gear, pinion, axis, and whatever other doohickey it takes for the entire mechanism to function. And the gearhead who designs and makes it all work.”
Source: The Freelancer’s Compass: Navigate Your Way from Corporate Cog to Solopreneur Star
“The best way to support your "friend's" business is to pay full price.”
“Please start a business during this depressive recession. Your opportunity only goes up from here. Opportunities come and go but if you do nothing about them so do you.”
“Beware of the dogs in the corporate woods waiting to fleece you. Don't let them take ownership of what is rightfully yours.”
Source: Lessons My Brothers Taught Me: How to Transform Your Personal Qualities Into A Successful Business
“The small stores are holding the one card that large retailers cannot, personal service. A clean bathroom, lounge chairs, and a sympathetic ear concerning weight gain, sagging skin, and "batwing" arms round it all off.
C.L. McManus, Adventures in Small Business”
Source: Adventures in Small Business: The surprising humor and realities in owning and running a small retail store.
“Owning a small business is like getting married. You're in it for the long haul, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer. And like marriage, there's a learning curve. You learn it's best to keep your mouth shut more often than not.”
Source: Adventures in Small Business: The surprising humor and realities in owning and running a small retail store.
“The tears the laughs the lessons learned
The products bought and then returned
The skin that was thin
Is now like buckskin
A degree in resilience well-earned”
Source: Adventures in Small Business: The surprising humor and realities in owning and running a small retail store.
“Why Start a Small Business?
There are many benefits to starting a small business. Small businesses are great because you get the opportunity.”
“A real business doesn’t start with passion—it starts with solving a real problem for real people.”
Source: Money's Dirty Little Secrets: How to Break the Rules, Get Filthy Rich, and Laugh All the Way to the Bank
“We hire coaches for our mindsets, attend conferences to improve our skill set, work with specialists for every need in our business and wonder why we feel like we’re all over the place.”
Source: The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success
“Most people set intentions wrong. The right way to set intentions is to be clear on what you want to go FROM and what you want to go TO.”
Source: The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success